Gender and the Expansion of University Education in Jordan

Autor/in	Jansen, Willy
Titel	Gender and the Expansion of University Education in Jordan
Quelle	In: Gender and Education, 18 (2006) 5, S.473-490 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0954-0253
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Foreign Countries; Females; Privatization; Higher Education; Gender Issues; Womens Education; Islamic Culture; Educational Change; Educational History; Access to Education; Religious Factors; Parent Attitudes; Feminism; Politics of Education; Jordan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Privatisation; Privatisierung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Geschlechterfrage; 'Women''s education'; Frauenbildung; Islam; Kultur; Bildungsreform; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Elternverhalten; Feminismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	This article explores how gender is threaded through the expansion and privatization of higher education in Jordan. Due to the justified current concern with the educational deficit of Muslim girls, it is easy to overlook the educational advances made by girls in some Islamic countries. In Jordan, girls have profited more than boys from the expansion of higher education. Economic or political reasons cannot explain this change, so explanations for the advancement of girls in the universities have to be sought elsewhere. I argue here that, for Jordan, this female advancement is linked to the commercialization of education set in motion by the early mission schools, the re-Islamization of society, and the prestige system of "culturedness." For this article, I have drawn upon qualitative anthropological data gathered through interviews with students, staff and parents in Jordan and from an analysis of higher education statistics. (Contains 1 note.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10